Cookie Monster vs Mazzy Star: ‘Fade Into You’ (3 music videos)


In 2009, according to Dangerous Minds, weirdo singer Catman Cohen recorded an idiosyncratic version of Mazzy Star’s 1993 Fade Into You. Later that same year, according to those very same minds, the Internets mashed up Cohen’s vocal with Cookie Monster Sesame Street footage.

Contrast and compare with this video of the original version, sung here live on Conan, by our girlfriend, the most distinctive voice in pop music, the East Los Angel, to know her is to love her, ladies and gentlemen, give it up for the amazing star of Mazzy Star, Hope Sandoval:

Mas…Cookie Monster vs Mazzy Star: ‘Fade Into You’ (3 music videos)

New Hope Sandoval/Mazzy Star: ‘Season of Your Day’ (audio)

bigmazzyMy girlfriend, East Los pocha Hope Sandoval, and her band Mazzy Star, are BACK BACK BACK with a new album. Hope has the sexiest voice in music, always identifiable, always mysterious, smoky and blue.

NPR reports:

Mazzy Star came out of the Los Angeles neo-psychedelic indie-rock scene of the ’80s — a spin-off the band Opal, which dissolved after lead singer Kendra Smith bailed. Hope Sandoval was essentially her replacement; as she murmured over the group’s woozily tuneful folk rock, with a brighter vocal style and dusky fashion-model looks, she emerged as a sort of goth-pop priestess, a mysterious feminine analog to R.E.M.‘s Michael Stipe (see the minor hit “Fade Into You” and “Sometimes Always,” her duet with The Jesus and Mary Chain‘s Jim Reid).

Mas…New Hope Sandoval/Mazzy Star: ‘Season of Your Day’ (audio)

East Los Angel Hope Sandoval and Mazzy Star: ‘California’ (video)


ZOMG! Comic Saenz’s girlfriend Hope Sandoval is back fronting Mazzy Star in this day-old video-less video California from an upcoming (September) release Seasons of Your Day. Saenz loves her immediately-recognizable smokey voice and encourages Ms. Sandoval to please forgive him for that one time at the Dal Rae in Pico Rivera.